The Great Dictator (1940)

Comedy
1936
Movie

Modern Times

8.3
1936

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Comedy
1931
Movie

City Lights

8.3
1931

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

8.2

Comedy
1921
Movie

The Kid

8.2
1921

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Adventure
1925
Movie

The Gold Rush

8
1925

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

Genre : Adventure

7.9

Comedy
1928
Movie

The Circus

7.9
1928

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

7.7

Comedy
1947
Movie

Monsieur Verdoux

7.7
1947

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

7.9

Romance
1952
Movie

Limelight

7.9
1952

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Genre : Romance

Drama
1950
Movie

Sunset Boulevard

8.3
1950

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Genre : Drama

7.9

Action
1926
Movie

The General

7.9
1926

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Genre : Action

7.4

Comedy
1941
Movie

Sullivan's Travels

7.4
1941

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

Action
1937
Movie

Way Out West

7
1937

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Genre : Action

8.2

Documentary
1959
Movie

Night and Fog

8.2
1959

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Genre : Documentary

War
1957
Movie

Paths of Glory

8.3
1957

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Genre : War

Mystery
1941
Movie

Citizen Kane

8
1941

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Genre : Mystery

7.5

Fantasy
1973
Movie

Three Wishes for Cinderella

7.5
1973

Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.

Genre : Fantasy

6.8

Science Fiction
1953
Movie

The War of the Worlds

6.8
1953

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

Genre : Science Fiction

7.6

Comedy
1940
Movie

The Philadelphia Story

7.6
1940

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Drama
1952
Movie

Ikiru

8.3
1952

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Genre : Drama